Python/Perl Popularity (Re: A Mountain of Perl...)

[tom__98 at my-deja.com]

In article <87og7fopvs.fsf at ifm.uni-kiel.de>,
  Janko Hauser <jhauser at ifm.uni-kiel.de> wrote:
> Use docindex.py!
>
> This module is definetly no substitute for perldoc but a start that
> answers your question. It gets the relevant information from the html
> tree which needs to be installed on your system.

Thanks, that's very helpful.  I'd suggest bundling something like
this with the distribution and making sure that it gets installed
(together with the documentation) by default.

I think it's really important for people to have
a simple, well-known way of getting to documentation no matter
where they are using Python or where it is installed.

> A benefit over docstrings is, that one does not need to import a
> module. This is a prototype, but shows that it is possible. Not that
> this will change your mind about Python :-)

Well, I don't think my mind needs to be changed about Python; I
have been using it since 1996 and already like the language.

Tom.


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